<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65093]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kings is mostly rapscallions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54526]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kings is mostly rapscallions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16567]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be fortunate is God, and more than God to mortals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the difference between owning the building and just being the contractor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31458]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the difference between owning the building and just being the contractor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again to the battle, Achaians! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance!  Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree--   It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5754]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53891]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All complaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49098]]></link><description><![CDATA[All complaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach,  And, if it can, at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach,  And, if it can, at once both please and preach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plan is to do one business every weekend in time for next spring when everything will be blooming. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The plan is to do one business every weekend in time for next spring when everything will be blooming. This is going to be an ongoing project and we can watch it grow as it moves down the street.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11505]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24321]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is one of the highest shot totals we have had ever. We were shooting all our shots high early ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30562]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is one of the highest shot totals we have had ever. We were shooting all our shots high early in the game. We needed to be shooting low on the goal. Once we started doing that, things turned around a little. Their goalie did a real good job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,  Whose stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,   O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming;    And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,     Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there!      Oh! say, does that star spangled banner yet wave,       O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23307]]></link><description><![CDATA[You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping;  And every happy growing thing  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2986]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping;  And every happy growing thing   Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25771]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look back, they might be gaining on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look back, they might be gaining on you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's language is as their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's language is as their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are what their mothers made them]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He speaketh to me the words of men. I listen to him and I repeat to him the words of gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58658]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's poison Ivy is another man's spinach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48824]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. -Sir Hugh Walpoe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity only knocks once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity only knocks once]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffer and expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffer and expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/782]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doingordinary things extraordinarily well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21587</guid></item></channel></rss>